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Quakecon 2010 - Main Stage

Saturday, August 14th @ 1pm CT

Watch the entire hardware workshop on UStream!

It is that time of year ago as we are in the final stages of preparing for the 2nd Annual PC Perspective Hardware Workshop to be held this Saturday, August 14th at 1pm CT (2pm ET, 11am PT) in Dallas, Texas. The crew at Quakecon was kind enough to invite us back for the 2010 iteration of the show and we are going to try and top last year's show with more and more giveaways! Be sure you make the pilgrimage to Dallas for one weekend of PC gaming mayhem that you won't forget and then have the chance to stop by our own workshop to walk away with some free stuff!

And hey, even if you aren't going to the BYOC or aren't interested in the tournaments, the event is still 100% free and you can come check out the workshop, no strings attached!

Case Mod Competition

Along with the Hardware Workshop, PC Perspective is sponsoring and judging the annual case mod contest! There are two categories for the competition: "from scratch" and "pre-fab" that will allow those that build their computer enclosures from the ground up to compete separately from those that heavily modify their existing cases and systems.

On Friday the PCPer staff will be wandering around the BYOC area looking at the various entries for the mod contest (sign up to enter during registration) and will then select two finalists from each competition category, "pre-fab" and "from scratch". Those finalists will be asked to bring their systems to the Hardware Workshop on Saturday to show off the designs, explain the detailed work that went into each and what they learned during the modification process. On stage we will select one of the two competitors for each category as the WINNER and while all four participants will take home some kick-ass hardware, the category winners will each get one of the 100 raffle tickets for TWO 2011 Shelby Mustang GTs!!!

We are working hard to configure a system that will allow us to reliably stream the workshop to all those thousands of fans that would love to attend but just couldn't make it to Quakecon for it. Check back here the day of the show (or maybe on Thursday for John Carmack's keynote) to see our streaming up and running and we may even have some surprises just for those of you watching at home or on the road!!

Prize Listing (Subject to change)

Antec

3 x Six Hundred cases

3 x EA-500 PSUs

3 x NBC200 notebook cooler

AMD

4 x Phenom II X6 1055T 6-core processors

ASUS

Powered by ASUS Gaming System

Configured and Tuned by Digital Storm

Intel Core i5-655K processor

Corsair memory, power supply and SSD

Cooler Master

1 x HAF X case

1 x HAF Black case

2 x V6GT cooler

1 x SPG1200W PSU

1 x SPG1000W PSU

3 x GX750W PSU

1 x Sniper Black case

1 x Scout case

3 x Inferno mice

Corsair

1 x Obsidian 700D

3 x Hydro H70 cooler

3 x Hydro H50 cooler

3 x A70 cooler

3 x A50 cooler

3 x F40 Force series SSD

ECS

1 x A890GXM-A motherboard

1 x NBGTX250E graphics card

40 x Tshirts

40 x Polos

Galaxy 1000

1 x GTX 470 GC graphics card

2 x GTX 460 GC 1GB graphics card

1 x GTX 460 768MB graphics card

1 x GTS 250 graphics card

MSI

1 x XPower motherboard

1 x GTX470 graphics card

1 x P55A-GD65 motherboard

1 x 870A-G54 motherboard

20 x Metro 2033 games

10 x Tshirts

NVIDIA

500 x Tshirts

500 x Metro 2033/Just Cause 2 games

6 x GTX 465

6 x GTX 460

5 x Razer gaming headsets

15 x NVIDIA Snuggies

NZXT

1 x Cryo S notebook cooler

1 x Avatar mouse

1 x Tempest Evo case

1 x Vulcan case

OCZ Technology

4 x Vertex 2 SSDs

50 x mouse mats

1 x OCZ700SXS2 PSU

1 x OCZ700MXSP PSU

3 x OCZ DDR3 memory kits

Patriot Memory

4 x DDR3 memory kits

4 x Patriot SSDs

2 x 32GB USB drives

2 x Patriot Box Office

Puget Systems 2500

Serenity 20db complete gaming system (!!)

Intel Core i5-750 CPU

Intel X25-M 80GB SSD

Antec P183 Case

Antec CP-850 PSU

Sapphire 350

1 x Sapphire HD 5770 Flex

1 x HD 5670 1GB

1 x Sapphire Backpack

Seasonic

1 x X650 PSU

Thermaltake

3 x Armor A90 case

5 x BlacX duet

5 x Mobile Fan 12

5 x ISGC Fan 12

10 x Hammer balloons

Western Digital

10 x Velociraptor 600GB

5 x Caviar Black 1TB

XFX

1 x 850W PSU

1 x 750W PSU

1 x 650W PSU

Zalman

1 x CNPS10X Extreme cooler

1 x VF3000A cooler

In total, we have about $25,000 worth of goods to give away - that's right just GIVE AWAY - to those in attendance at the workshop this coming Saturday!!! Come in, get your raffle ticket, enjoy the show and hopefully you'll be walking out with some great hardware as a sweet parting gift. This is our chance to give back to the community that keeps PC Perspective, as well as the other hardware site and hardware vendors, in business and keeps us interesting throughout the year!

The big highlights are the two complete systems that are going to raffled off on stage: ASUS and Digital Storm and providing a "Built by ASUS" system that will make you the envy of the BYOC and Puget Systems also was kind enough to donate a killer gaming rig that is also nearly completely silent!